our consent, that both their requests be communicated to the Heads of Houses, and proposed in convocation. Given under our hands and seals the [fourth day] of July 1692. Jonathan Edwards, Vice Can. Fitzherbert Adams.

Ra. Bathurst.

APPENDIX, No. II.

A TRIPOS.

The existence of the manuscript containing the Tripos, and other curious pieces, was unknown to Swift's earlier editors and biographers. Dr Barrett, to whose intelligence and industry the public owe their acquaintance with this miscellany, gives the following account of the manuscript and the writer.

"The Whimsical Medley, from which the foregoing Tripos, and the following poems, have been transcribed, is a MS. in three volumes, 4to, in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. It is everywhere written by one and the same hand, except on one page, which contains an address in verse "to Emilia, Baroness of Newtown Butler," concluding thus:

"Accept this offering from a friend that's true,

Since what I've wiit falls short of what's your due.

"From

your Ladyship's most humble, most obedient,
most affectionate brother,

"J. BUTLER."

This poetical epistle has no date; but, as it mentions the lady's son as then living, who died in 1721, (as she herself died in 1722, and her husband Theophilus in 1723,) we cannot assign it a later date than 1720.

"In every other part the MS. appears all throughout written by one and the same hand, which is a different hand from the last mentioned; and this hand-writing I suppose to be that of Theophilus, first Lord Newtown Butler, and the elder brother to Brinsley, first Viscount Lanesborough ;" a fact which Dr Barrett has clearly established by circumstantial evidence, unnecessary to be here repeated.

In addition to what is above stated concerning Theophilus Lord

Newtown, I observe from a codicil to Dean Swift's will, first printed in this edition of his works, that he bequeathed Mrs Ridge. way, the Dean's house-keeper, the sum of L. 20 yearly, which annuity Swift purchased from Mrs Ridgeway and her husband. The Whimsical Medley contains many poems which Dr Barrett is inclined to ascribe to Dean Swift, most of which are printed in the present edition.

It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader, that a Tripos was a satirical oration delivered by the Terræ Filius, as he was called, who, from long custom, was supposed to have the privilege, at the public acts of the university, to throw forth his satire, with impunity, upon the fellows and heads of the college, as well as among the community at large. Upon 11th July 1688, the fol lowing Tripos was certainly spoke by Mr John Jones, an intimate of Swift, and he was degraded from his degree on account of the scandalous reflections which it contains. The circumstance gave rise to the tradition, handed down by Richardson, that Swift had pronounced the oration in the quality of Terræ Filius, and undergone the punishment of expulsion. See Memoirs of Life, p. 23. But, although both these particulars are certainly false, yet Dr Barrett, to whose labours the public is indebted for so much light on the early part of Swift's history, conceives it probable that the Tripos, the ostensible production of Jones, was the secret and unavowed work of the illustrious subject of his memoirs. The arguments of this learned and industrious essayist, are briefly as follow: 1st, It seems likely there must have been some foundation, more or less, for the tale rehearsed by Richardson; 2d, Jones was an intimate of Swift, to whose satirical disposition the Tripos offered an interesting opportunity of indulging itself, at the expence of individuals whom he is known to have disliked; 3d, 'The piece presents strong outlines of Swift's peculiar stile of composition.

These reasons, especially as proceeding from Dr Barrett, must have due weight with every reader. Yet the present editor cannot admit them as altogether strong enough to attach the whole disgrace arising from the following piece of scurrility to the me mory of Swift. For, 1st, As Richardson's anecdote, resting on the report of a very aged person, is notoriously false in its two principal allegations, it has, according to the ordinary rules of evidence, little claim to credit in any other. 2d, Admitting Swift's early propensity to satire, it seems alien to his disposi tion, to suppose that he would have suffered Jones, his friend, to sustain the punishment of degradation for an offence which he had himself committed, without endeavouring to mitigate the penalty by confessing his share of the crime. 3dly, Neither ob

scenity nor macaronic latinity are so uncommon among young students, as to attach a composition abounding with both to any one member of any university. And the other points of resemblance, such as the testamentary disposition of Mr Hewetson in the Tripos, to the legacy of the father in the Tale of a Tub, seem rather far-fetched. The poetry has, however, more the air of being Swift's composition; and, although the heaviness of many parts of the Tripos are greatly against the internal evidence relied upon by Dr Barrett, yet enough remains, considering Swift's neglect of academical rules, his vindictive animosity against Dr Owen Lloyd, who is a severe sufferer in the Tripos, his insubordination and offences against discipline, to think that he may have had some hand in composing a part, at least, of the following satire, and that Richardson's anecdote has, so far, some foundation in truth.

The researches of Dr Barrett have thrown light upon most of the persons satirized in the following Tripos; besides which, we are indebted to his Essay on the earlier part of the life of Swift, for the following general information:

"At the Commencement, in July 1688, when this Tripos was pronounced, I find that the undernamed persons took the following degrees; to all of whom allusions are inade in it.

"Mr William King, (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin,) B. D. and D. D.; Mr Charles Gwithers, M. D.; and Jeremy Marsh, Alexander Jephson, Thomas Cox, Richard Barry, William Tirrell, Allen Maddison, William Warren, Jo. Travers, &c. were admitted to the degree of A. M.

"Jephson was afterwards a clergyman, and had the school of Camberwell. He and Gwithers, and several others, were censured on various occasions by the Board, as was also Nich. Knight, whose name occurs in this Tripos. At the same time appear on the books of the Buttery, among the resident Doctors and Masters, the names of Dr Foy (who had been a Senior Fellow, but, like Foley, had resigned), Dr Gwithers, Mr Napper, Mr Jephson, Mr Cox, Mr Terrill, and Mr Delauny. The other names occurring in the Tripos are all names of persons who had been students in the college, but at that time some of them had left it. We also may find some of the names occurring in King's State of the Protestants, such as that of Dean Glandee, a person of abilities, but whose character has been reproached with the imputation of immorality.” ·

A TRIPOS,

Or Speech, delivered at a Commencement in the University of Dublin,* (held there, July 11, 1688,) by Mr John Jones, then A. B. afterwards D. D.

ACT I.

Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros.

Your probabo, probabo, is as dull as a Trinity Sunday

sermon.

Dii boni, quas novas aves hic video! Tot habemus barbaros ignoramos et foppos: tot doctores indoctos, rummos academicos, cives aldermanicos, rusticos personas, and so many pretty, pretty little rogues, that, should I speak Latin, I should banter ten parts of the company. Wherefore, for the sake of the ladies, bullies, the Rums, and Fellow-commoners, I'll order it, (as I know you all would have it,) that the English be ten to one against the Roman.

Lenite clamorem, till I shew these gentlemen the civilities of the house.

Non temere decet quidem ut salutemus libenter. Salvete igitur quotquot reverenda vel ridicula, docta vel rummosa capita; sed imprimis salvus sit Doctor Acton, (ut inquit Erasmus) Athleticè: superannuati omnes salvi sint pancraticè et, si qui adsint cornuti, quod verisimile est, valeant taurice; deinde si quis adsit medicus immedicabilis, † qui skulkat subter id manticæ, quod in tergo est, docto in cujus capite Esculapius viget, sed in ossibus dominatus astronomiæ et effæto corpore totus inhæret Galenus et Hippocrates, si possibile sit, inquam, valeat ille; sed præ cæteris clericum istum clericorum salvere jubeo, who preaches in an oven,

The Provost at that time was Dr Robert Huntington. The Senior Fellows were, Dr Richard Acton, Vice-provost, George Brown, Dive Downes, John Griffith, John Barton, St George Ashe, and Benedict Scroggs.

The Junior Fellows were, Patrickson, Reader, Thewks, Smith, Hall, Lloyd, Sayers, Alled, and Hassett.-BARRETT.

The Reverend Michael Hewetson, whose sister's testament is afterwards given. He was admitted into college 18th July 1660, took a master of art's degree 27th February 1681-2, and, in 1684, was tenant to the college for the lands of Coolremen in the county of Donegal.-Dr BARRETT.

and is of the same name and heraldry with an eminent blind cobler, who, when the kingdom was all out of the stitches, vampt himself a colonel; if his gravity be here, I salute him for seven several reasons.

First, Because he drinks and goes to the boghouse for fourteen reasons; but cannot give one for selling his organs to a mass-house.

Secondly, Because (according to his own phrase,) he preaches by the London standard, which never lessened, as I know of, but thrice; and then Stillingfleet and Tillotson themselves were not one jot better or worse, unless we say with the poet,

Sed malè dum recitas, incipit esse tuus.

Thirdly, Because when he came from England, he wore as much silk for a doublet as made his sister (joy be with her, as he said,) a manteau and petticoat. Quere, whether then Mr Parson wore the breastplate of righteousness? It is plain he did, and that his intentions were honourable, for the next Sunday following he preached,-Give Cæsar his due. It is ill-nature then in Bunbury's wife's husband to revile him for this; and, to speak in the phrase of a pretty little Senior Fellow, There's no Jew but would be more gentle.

Fourthly, Because he consecrates as much water at once, as makes Christians for a month.

Fifthly, Because he invited to his sister's funeral none but (as he was pleased to call them) the cream of the parish; viz. those that kept coaches. Now himself upon himself: his conclusion in such a case will be thus, That all the curds and cream in the parish tour it in coaches, while the poor skim-milk and bonny-clobber trudge a-foot. I wonder, Mr Leeson, with his cream of Theology, is not his parishioner. There is a mess for the Freshmen. But,

Sixthly, Because he lives by the Canon, and yet corrects the Rubrick.

Seventhly and lastly, Because he made himself a large and ponderous night-cap, after the exact model of his church; and this he did for two reasons:

First, To shew that no noddle in the diocese could bear such a weight as his. Secondly, to cure a distemper, which,